Tag Archives: Steve Jobs

Apple a Succession Planning, Corporate Culture Success Story

So the new iPad has come out, sending technophiles (which seems to be everybody these days) to the moon with glee. Combined with the recent news that Apple’s market capitalization recently broke the $500 billion mark, only the sixth company … Continue reading

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Employee Anti-Poaching Agreements Thwart the Free Market

An interesting case is playing out as we speak in Silicon Valley, where a group of high-tech employees has sued Google, Apple, Pixar, Lucasfilm, Adobe, Intel, and Intuit over an alleged “gentlemen’s agreement” not to recruit each other’s employees. In In … Continue reading

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Apple Did the Best It Could With Unpleasant News

There’s probably never an ideal time to announce that your visionary CEO — the man credited with revolutionizing consumer technology — is taking an indefinite leave of absence for medical reasons. But Apple probably handled the news that Steve Jobs … Continue reading

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